My experience of Star Wars: episode IV was one that I did not expect to endure. Usually I am not into the sci-fi, intergalactical type of movies as I had never seen any of the Star Wars movies before. Anyways, my experience was that this was a really exciting movie that is action packed with a great plot and storyline. And you can see how this first movie unfolded the path for the success that the series has gone down and still continues to go down contemporarily. This movie is the second highest grossing movie of all time not only in the US but also Canada. So as you can tell we aren’t the only ones that feel like the Star Wars movies are some of the best ideas ever came up with. When I watched the first movie I definitely didn’t expect to be so locked in and interested in a movie that was based off so much science fiction, but you really have no choice. After watching the first movie I felt as if I had no choice but to continue watching the series just to keep up and know what happened next. 
While watching the movie I decided to use a couple analytical techniques to examine the movie closely. For example, the sounds and music that go along with this movie fit the special effects very well. I feel like the loud lightsaber noise just make it more intense when you hear the battles going on and the intense music playing in the background really compliments the visuals. I also see the lighting of the movie to very contrasting and easy to identify what I’m looking at. The dark matter space in the background makes anything with color really stand out while out in this darkness. Although it really dark outer space, I wouldn’t say that the director used a lot of low-key lighting but more of specific types of lighting to indicate good and evil within the film. For example, the majority of the white and lighter colors represent the good people in the film, in contrast to the darker colors used to represent the more evil people in the film. The director initially started this by showing a very high-key lighted scene in the beginning where the princess was shown with all brighter colors. I feel like by him doing this he set the standard early as to what we should look for when trying to identify good versus evil. I also noticed how the movie is so long that you get the opportunity to run into a couple obligatory scenes where you see a whole bunch of story lines that have been adding up finally climaxing. This movie has a lot going on as well so when you finally do see an obligatory scene you’re usually pretty relieved to get an answer to your curiousness.
A very significant scene in Star Wars was when obi’wan became one with the force. In the entire movie you hear them talking about the force , like the force this, and the force that. Then when he was struck down by Darth Vader his body disappeared instead of being cut in half, which was the first time the force had actually been proven. The force was talked about by the good and evil people in the movies but ultimately the force never really was shown to be a real thing. Another very important moment in the film was when the destruction of alderaan occurred. This is the first example of the destar being used. The destar was like a huge ball, no bigger than the moon, that had a crater in it and was used to shoot lasers out and destroy planets. The last but certainly not least moment that I found to be very significant in the film was when Luke turns off his targeting computers and uses the force to manually launch the torpedoes in the exhaust port of the destar, at obi’wan’s request. I feel as if there are too many great moments in the movie to really pinpoint just a couple significant times so I randomly chose 3 just to show how good the scenes in the movie really were.
Anyone I’ve ever talked to about Star Wars either tell me that they really love it and have seen every single episode, or that they’ve never had the opportunity to really get in the movies. The people who haven’t seen Star Wars usually have a pretty negative opinion on the movie and on the people that watch it. I’ve heard multiple people call people who have watched Star Wars either nerds, lowlifes, or anything else they can think of just to justified to themselves that’s it’s ok that they haven’t had the chance to witness such an experience of science fiction. Anyone I have talked to that has seen Star Wars is simply addicted and are always talking about how they can’t wait to see the next episode coming out.
On a technical level I really enjoyed the media and visuals they took the time to put inside of this film. I know it took a whole lot of editing to have to create and entire sequence of movies that all took place in outer space. I would definitely say this this is considered one of the greatest movies of all time and never will lose that title. Even after watching ET and King Kong I was amazed on how great the edits and special effects in the movie were. This movie was released in 1977 and I know it took more than 2 and a half years to get this movie completely produced and finished. So yes, there are films out there that are considered great films, but unfortunately don’t live up to their name. Good for George Lucas, Star Wars doesn’t fall until the overrated category like the rest of the so call “Great Movies” that aren’t really that great. In actuality, this series of movies has been getting greater and greater as time has been passing, technology getting greater, and George Lucas (the director) getting smarter.
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Hi TY-Prysock:
Thanks for your sharing! I love this science fiction film as well not only because of the thrilling storyline but also the realistic portraits of the imaginary scenes out of people’s mind. The subtle and dynamic sounds used in each scene between the battle between the good versus evil has particularly brought the audience to the story really. That’s an incredible way to make such a great film.